Islam has never been challenged from within as it is now. Scholars are therefore obliged to respond, and their response should be intellectual.
The ideology of the Islamic State (to which the media typically refers with the initials ISIS, which stands for "the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria") is based on a complex system of fallacies that cut the sacred texts from their context, and on a series of devious stratagems that select from the corpus of the law what satisfies their twisted minds.
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